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by floor2 745 days ago
This is absurd.

Is your car sitting in your driveway right now? Someone else could be driving it, it's immoral that you don't leave the keys sitting on the roof.

Is your bed or couch empty right now? Someone else could be sleeping there right now.

Do you have money in your checking account? Someone else could be buying the things they need with that money, you should put the cash outside for them to take.

A house sitting empty while the owners renovate, look for tenants, try to sell, etc is a normal and necessary part of a functioning society.

The solution to housing shortages is to build more housing. That's it, that's the whole solution.

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To take this further, everyone here has a computer. Obviously you don't use 100% of the cycles all the time, so it is immoral if you do not install a program that allows anyone else to use your unused cycles.

Yes there are power costs with 100% usage vs idle time but there are also cost of upkeep on a house.

It's not absurd. Yes, it's immoral that I am as wealthy as I am (relatively, on a global scale), and it's immoral that I get to eat so much better than others in the same society as I am in. It doesn't mean I'm going to do anything about it, it just means on that axis, I am not a particularly moral person.
It's not a fact that it's immoral. It being immoral is _your_ judgement. If someone else thinks it's not immoral, that is _just as legitimate_.
I mean, the massive infrastructure waste that exists to accomodate unproductive cars is a real point that degrades where we live.

So much space in towns dedicated to storing cars while they're not being used, taking space away from where housing can be built. As a non-american, I believe that parking lots are immoral as well :)